Pop Tarts

Our family goes through more pop tarts than you can imagine. We currently have about 6 different boxes of pop tarts, however we've had many other flavors as well. Justin eats 2 for breakfast every morning and Katelyn likes them as well. They like them so much that they have had fights over them. Justin likes them so much that he's went as far as to hide his favorite flavor so that no one else eats them. Yes, Justin covets poptarts.

Here's a clip of Brian Regan on poptarts.

Somebody did it

I think eating as a family is something that rarely occurs in most homes these days. Even when it does occur the tv is usually on distracting everyone from conversation.

Recently Stephanie noticed that there something on the floor around the table. Then we noticed that it was on the chair as well. What was it?: Parmasean Cheese. Usually food on the floor isn't a problem, we simply call Daisy, our beloved Jack Russell Terrior and she takes care of it, she left the parasean cheese though. We had this discussion at the dinner table over it, more or less:

Stephanie: "What's on the floor?
me: "It's also on the seat"
Stephanie: "It's parmasean cheese, who did this?"
Katelyn: "somebody did it"
Stephanie: "do you know who this somebody is?"
Katelyn: "no, but somebody did it"
Justin: not saying anything, just laughing!

After several moments passed:

Katelyn: "well, when I shook it, the lid wasn't on good"

Yes, "somebody" did do it, and that same "somebody" helped to clean it up!

When we uploaded this picture we thought "I didn't eat the brownie"

It was from a fudge pop.

Isn't it amazing how we don't want to admit what we've done. Katelyn's not alone here. We all want to shift the blame. She got it from her mom and myself, who got it from our parents, who you guessed it, got it from their parents. Our orginal parents Adam and Eve didn't want to admit it either. Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed Satan. The fact is "we did it". The question remains: "Will we admit it?"

Bill Cosby and humor

Growing up we used to watch a lot of the Bill Cosby show. There were other shows that we watched as well, but not many stood the test of time. I may do a post later of shows that I watched, as I travel down memory lane. While we choose not to watch a lot of tv in our house, we do find ourselves occasionally watching re-runs of the Cosby show. It's amazing how much fun you can have with clean comedy (meaning no reference to drugs, alcohol, sexual content, offensive language, and violence). Thinking of the shows that are currently on tv, there's not much on like that anymore. I wonder why? Could it be that many people simply do not want to watch these type of shows and therefore they're not produced? Possibly. The desires in us tend to want to live 'on the edge' and we tend to be bored if those desires are not met. We would probably say that we don't want to watch shows with that kind of content, but do our actions speak otherwise? How many times do we turn the tv on just because there seems to be nothing else to do? Unfortunately, this is also the time when we turn our thinking off and allow ourselves to be 'entertained'. The reasons we choose to watch something is no longer if we can learn something or if it would be of benefit, but rather 'Is it fun?'.

I love humor. I love to laugh. I believe God loves humor too. I believe that the reason we love to laugh and love humor is because we are made in the image of God.

What is your view of humor?

Watching this clip with Bill Cosby made me think back to watching the Cosby show as a kid and also watching it with Stephanie, Justin, and Katelyn. I have no idea how old this is, but it has to be at least from the 90's. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. It's ok to have fun with the south as long as you live in the South. :)


Gotta love Bill!